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Things 11 & 12 – Podcasts and YouTube

Thing 11: Find and listen to some podcasts Thing 12: Search YouTube for videos and discover YouTube channels When I was a kid I didn’t read that much I was much happier listening to story tapes and when I listen to the radio I would much rather hear spoken word rather than music – these are the two main reasons why I love podcasts. I started listening to podcasts when I worked on the Oxford Digitisation Project. One of my main tasks was surveying the collections across Oxford’s libraries to see what could be digitised; it was a very repetitive [...]

Things 9 & 10 – Social bookmarking

Thing 9: Sign up for a Delicious account, bookmark and tag some of your favourite web sites. Thing 10: Add other Delicious users to your network so that you can easily view their bookmarks. I have been using delicious now for nearly a year. I can’t claim that I go back to it regularly to find things but I find it reassuring to know that I have some links to helpful tools and useful articles there in case I need them someday. I think the ones I go back for the most are those for web design, especially when I’m [...]

Sheldonian Man

Sheldonian Man Originally uploaded by ekcragg I took this photo of one of the stone heads outside the Sheldonian Theatre and had some fun with the effects in Picnik. This is my favourite. At first I thought it made it look like he was shouting, but then I wondered if he might be sneezing!

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